Families cope with Pilgrim's arrests (boo hoo for illegals)

MOUNT PLEASANT — Friends and family of the 46 people taken to jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in April met Sunday with supporters offering legal and emotional support.

The federal government moved on Pilgrim's Pride Corp. facilities in Mount Pleasant and in four other states on April 16, gathering some 400 employees on various identity theft charges. A year-long investigation produced the arrests.

It also produced a vacuum of information among much of the Latin immigrant community that feeds Pilgrim's Mount Pleasant workforce of about 3,300 people. That lack of information drew an attorney from the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, representatives from Catholic Charities and the League of United Latin American Citizens, and a handful of immigration attorneys to Mount Pleasant's Tennison Memorial Church.

"Everybody feels bad, because they have relatives or they have friends (who were affected)," the Rev. Jaime Lopez said before the hourlong meeting at the church. "We have four children who were in care for one week at (a member's) house."

Longview lawyer Jose Sanchez said the local people arrested in the operation are being held without bond in the Gregg County Jail pending trials that might begin in June.

Several people gathered around Cindy Wilkerson, who ministers to women in the Longview jail. She said the eight women she has met who were arrested in the federal probe are unlike most prisoners she visits.

"I see women that have had a hard life," she said. "I'm not used to seeing such beautiful, physically beautiful, women. They are so different. They don't really know what's going to happen to them."

Bilingual inmates are translating for the federal prisoners, since jailers do not know Spanish, she said.

The women and men face up to five years in federal lockup and fines of up to $250,000 if convicted on the identity theft charges. They also face deportation action, officials said.

Teen-ager Jesus Arroyo, a student at Mount Pleasant's Chapel Hill High School, said he and his brother were removed from school on April 16 and told their parents had been arrested.

"And they said it was because my parents didn't tell them where my uncle is, so they arrested my parents," the 15-year-old said, tears running down his cheeks. "They just threw my mom in jail, and she's pregnant."

Arroyo's parents were released after about a week, during which their children stayed with their parents' friends, Arroyo said.

Church member Liz Newman said her heart goes out to the family members of those caught in the arrest net.

"They don't know which way to turn, they don't know who to trust," Newman said. "Some people see this only in black and white, but my own teen-aged sons, who experienced this, did not get a good feeling out of it at all. ... I myself saw it for the first time (on April 16), and until you actually see it and see a family experience it, you have no concept or idea what it is to live in fear like that."

What a sad story but not a word about the illegals who chose to come here and have kids setting this whole thing up. The parents who are here working illegally using stolen identities are the ones to blame for this mess. If they cared about what is happening then they should have followed the laws in the first place. I will not allow anyone to shove blame off onto the legal citizens of this country. The whole blame and fault is with the illegals. They seem to think if they have broken the laws of our nation for 10 or 20 years without being caught that they have some right to keep breaking those same laws with no accountability. BS, put them on trial, put them in prison, and then kick their butts out!!!!!
We need to send a big message to all of the people in this nation that our laws will be enforced and that no person or people have the right to chose which ones they want to ignore!!!!

Let me just save these “journalists” some time. Next occasion you have for writing one of these hand-wringing boo-hoo stories about deportations, just use the following template:

Poor

A) Pedro
B) Maria
C) Jose
D) Jesus Christo

A) working
B) babysitting her dozen helpless children
C) discovering a cure for cancer

when

A) thugs
B) goons
C)gestapo
D) roving hordes

from

A) the INS
B) government hit squads

show up at the

A) tiny but impeccable bungalow
B) business gates
C) lettuce patch

and haul away the terrified

A) mother of nine
B) hardworking man who was merely searching for a better life

amid

A) gasps of horror
B) howls of outrage
C) beatific calls for forgiveness for “they know not what they do”.

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says

When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.

Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%
Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.

Wanted for Murder in New York City.

Chicago wanted for Murder

Philadelphia wanted for murder

San Francisco wanted for Murder

New Orleans wanted for Murder

Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC

FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals) Around 40% of the FBI's wanted for murder are Mexican Nationals

There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. He said further that most of illegals in the federal prisons were in for drug related charges. Most of the illegals in jail for murder were in the state prisons. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.

Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article. Also this article from the LA Times. And here. This makes intuitive sense. We see stories regularly of drug gang killings in Mexico but we don't see those same stories in the USA. The reason we don't see those stories is not because its not happening. Rather we don't see the stories about illegals killing blacks because that kind of story is terribly politically incorrect. The populations being displaced in downtown sanctuary cities especially are American blacks. That means that their criminal elements would be pushed aside by Mexican gangs as well. That's also the story that the wanted for murder posters in all the major cities seems to suggest.

Nevertheless, the pattern of non reporting is starting to break. Discovery Channel has a series called Gangland that mentions ethnic cleasing of blacks by Mexican gangs

Reported Foreign Nationals on Death Row in the U.S.

To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.

All that said the true number of criminal aliens is far higher than is revealed by criminal aliens in prisons. Most are simply waived through the courts.DHS Secretary Chertoff, has been quoted as warning that two million people in this country illegally have committed serious crimes. If you check the links you'll notice that its McCain who cites Chertoff. See also here and here Here is more info from Judicial Watch.

However the number of illegals on death row is far lower.

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